Former UVA Cop Charged With Rape: Sean Michael Horn Faces Bond Hearing Today
Charlottesville, VA- Sean Michael Horn, 42, current Albemarle County reserve deputy and former police officer for the University of Virginia as well as the Albemarle Sheriffs Office was arrested last evening for rape. The arrest follows an extensive investigation conducted by the prosecutors office.
While there has been no specifics released, and it is the policy of www.blinkoncrime not to identify alleged victims of sexual crimes, we have learned that a complaint of rape against Horn was received in the Fall of 2011.
The arrest follows what can only be described as a series of chaotic incidents and events affecting Albemarle county law enforcement officers since 2009 at a minimum.
Following the death of 18 year old Greene County resident Colby Eppard on New Years Day 2010 by police gunfire, 7 Albemarle county officers were either suspended and/or demoted. Caleb Marden, a decorated sharp-shooter who served in Iraq was fired. Denise Lunsord, prosecutor for Albemarle county and North Garden resident, cleared all officers of any wrongdoing from the incident.
Eppard allegedly stole a neighboring Greene County patrol car and traveled almost 60 miles to Albemarle county. Although off duty Greene Sgt Randall Snead was out of his jurisdiction, Snead was among the officers in pursuit of Eppard and participated in the ambush to stop the teen. Snead’s former mentor and Sherriff, Willie Morris, committed suicide on January 28th.
Although he was on desk assignment pending the investigation of Eppard’s death, Snead responded to the scene of Morris’s home where he was located and rushed to the hospital. Morris was removed from life sustaining efforts without ever regaining consciousness. A suicide note blamed his tinnitus condition.
In a recent election, Steve Smith won the Sheriff slot running against Snead, and has since met with controversy after releasing nearly all of his staff. An email criticizing Smith was received by several news outlets from a previously fired Albemarle County Lt. Scott Cox, then a Greene county deputy who has since been released. Horn has Sheriff Smith listed as a friend on his facebook profile. Cox was among the Albemarle County Officers who was demoted after 18 years of service in the scandal.
Albemarle county is also the home of The Anchorage Farm, where murdered Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington was recovered after exhaustive searches of the areas surrounding the JPJ arena, UVA campus and private LE searches failed to locate her. Harrington disappeared from a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena on October 17, 2009 after being refused re-entry by security. DNA evidence has linked the Harrington case to a suspect in an unsolved rape in Fairfax, VA in 2005. Former lead detective now retired, Lt. Rader, has only indicated that forensic link means that Morgan came into contact with that individual prior to leaving Charlottesville.
Efforts to confirm whether Sean Horn was working the event as a UVA officer that evening have not been returned.
Corrine Geller, public information officer for the Virginia State Police, whose agency leads the probe into Morgan’s homicide responded to our inquiry as to whether or not Horn was a target of their continuing investigation this morning:
“The investigation remains ongoing at this time. I’m not able to comment on who our agents have or have not looked into during the course of their investigation.”
Horn lists Virginia Tech among his educational credentials on his facebook account, where Harrington was a junior at the time of her disappearance. It is not known if the two were acquainted.
Horn is being held in the Albemarle Regional jail pending his bond hearing today.
Check back to www.blinkoncrime.com for updates.
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Well this article is about Sean Michael Horn,and possibly other corrupt LE. If the DNA was on the shirt, it’s possible it and imo quite likey it was planted and if there is a cop or X cop out there raping and killing people, the public needs to know. It would not be the first time a LE official used his status to lure women to their death. I hope I’m wrong but there is something not right with many aspects of Morgans case. Can you see Morgan taking a ride from someone in a uniform? Someone she trusted wouldn’t harm her? Possibly a cop or security gaurd? Someone in a possition to possibly plant evidence?
How could LE determine DNA was planted if they cannot even locate who the DNA belongs to?
Respectfully, you get what I am saying- there is no investigative strategy to release the DNA source origins as they relate to physical evidence in this case. If there were, I would be all for it.
B
My basic belief is that Morgan was taken by surprise by sketch.
I do not know if MH would get in a car with a man in a uniform, if drunk or high she might be inclined not to do so, but it would be possible for a man in a uniform to “arrest her” and place her in his car.
I cannot buy into the “planted” DNA theory, because to me, it makes no sense for LE to be carrying around DNA that was several years old.
How does one plant DNA and not plant their own- albeit inadvertently, agreed.
People, it was full profile- that should tell you the likeliness of planting DNA is not great.
B
Well, I think Sidneyfrog has a point. “Sketch’s” DNA was found either at the Anchorage Farm site or on the T-shirt or on both. Seems that if it was found ONLY only on the T-shirt then the possibility of a plant seems possible.
As to the involvement of LE in a cover-up I don’t know. It pains me to say I believe it is possible. Remember the investigator now in charge of Morgan’s murder wrote the report on the Eppard shooting. That report justified the shooting of a mentally-retarded youth by a group of LE yahoos who had no business being near either a gun or a badge.
With Morgan’s case we have the public finding the T-shirt, finding the leggings, and finding poor Morgan herself. Posters here have blown holes in the timeline which have not been addressed and LE has not addressed any glaring inconsistencies in their comments on the inside and outside security videos, why the leggings were not taken into evidence, why no information on the toxicology report, cause of death, place of death, or time of death has been released – and on and on.
To keep repeating that this or that is “case sensitive” seems to be a flimsy excuse to avoid accountability.
Lots of errors and I mostly agree, except as to releasing DNA origins and case sensitive info publicly.
That said, “case sensitive” can be subjective, it is not for me however, int he DNA matter.
B
Many of you have recently been examining the possibility of drugs being involved with Morgan’s behavior. Some seem to have first hand knowledge of behaviors caused by certain ones. In particular, the X drug and its many variants.
My generation is at a loss to fully understand the drug scenes from a personal experience level. We simply did not have access or knowledge of their existance. Having said that, I did raise children who did have exposure to drugs of the time and have observed their effect on behavior of people.
Something that was mentioned by Gil Harrington in her last post about Morgan was Morgan’s difficulty in being away from home in her first year of college. This tells me that basically Morgan was a very shy person in a new situation and had difficulty with them.
Both alcohol and X are inhibition removal drugs making one relax and feel comfortable for a while. This is given in a table of behaviors from various drug sites regarding X. This also lists all of the behaviors that we have discussed that people observed. These include the appearance of being overheated, agressive and argumenative.
There is also the unhealthy and dangerous behavior of drinking or sipping from the glass or cup of another person. In my generation, this was considered poor manners and very dangerous from a standpoint of germs. Today, this is not considered poor manners or unhealthy by our young peoplel although IMO it remains dangerous and is particularly so in a public situation.
I don’t think there will be any progress in Morgan’s case until the civil case comes to trial. The Virginia police are too into protect mode to solve it.
The fact that she had trouble her first year away from home does not necessarily mean she was shy or had trouble with new situations generally. We don’t know what was going on in her life and I can think of many possible scenarios or reasons for struggling during one’s first year of college, including but not limited to depression, a difficult roommate, a breakup, or even just having parents as amazing as the Harringtons. (Who wouldn’t miss them? I know I would!)
I also don’t think this speculation on what drugs she may have taken really helps anything, especially since it is just that, pure speculation. It could have been anything, ketamine, mushrooms, Red Bull, but I don’t think it is really our place to hypothesize. I just wanted to share my opinion, no offense meant whatsoever to anyone.
@ peace through music (love the moniker, btw), alot of people are struggling with the thought of Morgan hitch hiking, and are perhaps trying to find a situation where she would do that, which includes her state of mind. To me, the witness testimony that I have the LEAST problem with, or believing to be absolutely true, is that of the father and daughter. Most of the other witnesses I question a little bit, but not them, and, iirc, they both stated they saw Morgan with her thumb out on the bridge on their first pass over. If she was hitching, we have NO idea who she may or may not have accepted a ride from. I do not take offense at all with what you said, peace, we should all be able to speak our minds here, I value everyone’s opinions, since we are all here for the same reason.
Oh, I was looking at the map of the Fairfax area again, and never noticed that Virginia International University is right behind the area where the rape occurred. Do any of you guys know if the victim in that rape was attending classes at VIU? They have an extensive “ESL” curriculum, English as a second language, and I know the victim spoke Urdu(?) I think, and some of the ESL classes are at night. The university also encouraged students to live with “host” families….from their 05/06 catalog:”An excellent way for students to improve their English- and at the same time acquire first hand experience of American culture- is to stay with a host family. Student Services selects host families through rigorous interview and inspection prodecdures.”
I then looked at their later catalog (08/09), and the host family living arrrangements were briefly mentioned but it appears they’ve changed their thinking on finding host families since 05/06. Is it possible Sketch saw/met the victim at VIU and followed her that night?
VIU lists the number of countries represented by the student body was 56 in 2011, broken down like this: Africa:31, North America:7, South America:19, Europe:29, Middle East:70, Asia:225, Caribbean:2.
http://elp.viu.edu/
@ tango….nice find on the Pritchard thing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a “travelin’” man.
You mean a profile like Michael Lee Jones?
Whose case info can be found here:
http://blinkoncrime.com/2011/10/16/two-years-cold-morgan-harrington-murder-two-women-two-locations-too-long/
B
“With Morgan’s case we have the public finding the T-shirt, finding the leggings, and finding poor Morgan herself. Posters here have blown holes in the timeline which have not been addressed and LE has not addressed any glaring inconsistencies in their comments on the inside and outside security videos, why the leggings were not taken into evidence…”
Hi George, I have been trying to find anything regarding the leggings being found. Apparently I’m not looking in the right place. If not too much trouble can you lead me in the right direction? Thanks so much.
Thanks Georgie – I feel sure somebody has mentioned this somewhere down the line. I don’t want to take credit for something that has already been discussed. That said I do find it interesting and very similar to Michael Lee Jones. Somewhere in that link on Pritchard is a graphic of the areas they cover and it’s scary. Up and down the east coast and the southern states. I think one of their clients was even in California. I know they hire locals but their executives and midlevel management would have to do a lot of traveling. Do they maintain an office in Charlottesville?
A Texas Grandfather wrote:
“I don’t think there will be any progress in Morgan’s case until the civil case comes to trial.”
I agree…
It has brought what ever was being done to a screeching halt.mo.
I think that would imply that it was progressing, which I do not believe.
I have interviewed folks that did not even know their was a sketch link who came in direct contact with Morgan that night.
B
Re: Tango’s post 2/12 .. 6:06pm. Pritchard Events and Blink saying Pritchard was working that night … Why was Morgan’s purse and contents not found that night after the parking lot clean-up by Pritchard’s crew? It wasn’t there then? Or, what??
Blink, that’s exactly the kind of profile I’m talking about when I say “travelin’” man….reading up on Jones, all of his victims, and Brennan, said he was “very calm, very cool”. It had to be someone with that kind of demeanor who raped the woman in Fairfax in a public place, and not all that late at night. The person who took Morgan did so in a public place with people and vehicles everywhere, as well as campus police and security presence in large numbers, and he did it without anyone seeing him do it. The person took Morgan to a remote farm and was able to place her there without leaving any evidence other than possible forensic evidence on her body. The person had the balls to place her t-shirt on a shrub along a well-traveled street lined with houses, and did it in broad daylight. This guy somehow does not attract attention to himself, it seems, and his non-chalance no doubt enables him to be in places/situations without anyone taking notice. If he’s like Jones, nothing bothers him and he can brutally rape and/or murder someone and not give it a second thought.
I came across this article yesterday, but the second comment is what caught my eye: basically saying that it wouldn’t be necessary for the perp to have intimate knowledge of AF, that he just drove out of town and found a remote area and took her there. I’ve always felt that AF was a big clue…”location, location, location”, as Rader said, and we’ve gone over that area at great length, most of us in agreement that this was someone who had been there many times before. Does anyone think we could be wrong about that???
http://fairfaxcity.patch.com/articles/can-a-family-members-dna-solve-a-fairfax-rape-and-morgan-harringtons-murder
The individual who placed Morgan on AF has intimate knowledge of the property, period. It is one of the very few details about this case investigators and profilers agree on.
If we believe Morgan’s murder was opportunistic, which I do, then one must believe we are dealing with a profile of someone who is not under high stress when he decides to act, quite the opposite.
He knows he can and would be tied to JPJ/UVA instantly, but his ties to AF are either via accomplice, or from long enough ago he did not believe he could be tied to it directly.
I continue to believe her placement on AF is a very specific message and more than a few “got the reference”.
Do I think VSP and Albemarle PD has done enough walk and talks in North Garden? Hell to the No.
B
Probably a dumb question, but did they get a DNA sample from Jones’ little buddy in the hotel video? I’m sure they did, because, you know, birds of a feather and all….
I’m leaning more towards a Pritchard/Centerplate employee type now, and getting away from LE involvement, there would have to be too many cops covering up, and although they’ve got some issues down there, I don’t think it’s a big police conspiracy, just too convoluted. And didn’t LE travel to the next Metallica concert after Morgan’s disappearance? Makes you wonder if someone saw her talking to/hanging around with a member of a traveling crew of some kind.
I do not know if they got a DNA sample at from the associate.
I do not think it is a LE conspiracy wrt to a suspect. I think there were mistakes made in this case at the LE level that they feel will make a prosecution an uphill trek, to put it mildly.
B
Blink says: I do not think it is a LE conspiracy wrt to a suspect. I think there were mistakes made in this case at the LE level that they feel will make a prosecution an uphill trek, to put it mildly.
B
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i do agree with you here blink, but why has the case been so neglected (my own opinion), as evidenced by your indication that witnesses have not been shown the sketch?
there is perp DNA, and unless that part of the case is screwed, i would think a lot of investigative mistakes are not insurmountable. assuming you want to solve the case, that is.
it really does look to me like this investigation has been all but abandoned. so i’ll ask this, can this case be given to other investigators in VSP? has anything been done to remedy mistakes? i guess the first step is for LE to acknowledge there may have been some. i doubt we will know if this happens, but there could be signs.
while i really do agree with you blink, i still think there will be a “nexus” in this case that includes relationships to LE that will be quite disturbing.
i don’t think it is a conspiracy either, but there must be some very deep seated problems with LE in the area for a civil case to be the only hope to help save the next girl.
deetee-
I am on record their will be a nexus to LE/security and the individual will have had direct access to JPJ/UVA via employment direct or as a contractor. Is that a big statement to make? Sure, but I stand behind it 100%.
One could say, well that is obvious Blink, all those types were on campus when this was occurring.
Of course they were. They were all on grounds, and UVA and VSP assert Morgan was off grounds when she was hitchhiking and therefore “logically” gets in a vehicle somewhere because she is desperate now, as opposed to minutes earlier, when she turned all help down (if you believe LE version).
In fact, she was in a pretty good mood, a few minutes later, she was curtseying to staffers in a golf cart on the track.
Note I say A FEW MINUTES LATER. Why? Because that is the actual timeline.
You see where I am going with this?
Can you even imagine presenting this opening argument to a grand jury?
B
hmm I didnt know that about the DNA and that its basically impossible to transfer that full profile from storage to like a tshirt. Also didnt know its impossible to handle something without DNA transfer.
That changes the theory of the tshirt so obvious being an elaborate false trail or a plant.
But why would the killer throw out evidence so close to JPJ and so carelessly and it still be the same guy that took all the time to go thru many obstacles at AF?
So the search stayed where they knew she was not. Plus your assuming it was her murderer that planted the shirt, I don’t think we can conclude that 100% to my knowledge.
To clarify, it is not impossible, but pretty close. Their are definitely some assumptions that have to be made for it to contain the markers necessary to qualify from CODIS.
B
Sydneyfrog,
I am looking also. What is curious is that the leggings were found near the intersection of Jefferson Park and Observatory Road. Jefferson Park is another name for business Route 29.
A person coming from the Anchorage Farm area and who wanted to go to the heart of campus and the Corner area quickly (where the T-shirt was found) would normally take the first exit off of main route 29 to business 29 after passing under I-64. This would be Fontaine which becomes Jefferson Park before becoming Emmet.
To clarify, it is not impossible, but pretty close. Their are definitely some assumptions that have to be made for it to contain the markers necessary to qualify from CODIS.
B
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I’ve been pondering the DNA evidence lately, and it’s funny that you posted what you did Blink.
Now, since the necessary markers have to be present to qualify for CODIS, this must mean that:
1. They were able to extract enough DNA from Morgan’s skelletonized remains which were exposed to the elements and animals for 2 1/2 months?
2. That whatever clothing was found with Morgan’s body even though exposed for same 2 1/2 months contained enough DNA to be tested?
3. That the DNA would have almost HAD to come from semen or saliva, to get enough markers to test?
I would think that something that hadn’t been exposed for a long period of time would be much more reliable, such as the Pantera tshirt. Am I thinking correctly on this, and where am I going with it? I hate it when my mind races.
Unfortunately I cannot answer you because it is case sensitive, I can’t even think of a general answer that does not reveal something but here goes:
1. It is a common misconception that Semen contains DNA. It does not. Sperm does. Semen can and sometimes will contain slough cells that contain DNA ( from penis lining/membrane). That said, sperm degrades extremely rapidly and semen, if it can be proven to be semen at all, once it is determined to not contain evidence of sperm, is right behind it. The amount of rapes today where semen/sperm is detected is very small. As a control, many labs are also random swabbing in addition to the standard rape kit protocol and coming up empty. Rapists are wearing condoms these days for the most part.
2. There is no evidence the Pantera shirt was exposed to the elements, in fact, I was told it was in excellent condition.
3. Where the DNA came from in terms of sample does not mean it “had” to come a specific origin over another. In other words, while the size of the sample and origin can produce a stronger result not necessarily needing amplification is true, it does not mean that a sample in need of amplification is any less valid if it meets the profile marker criteria.
One hypothetical might be, and I stress hypothetical, perhaps a mixed DNA sample, concluding one was Morgan’s and the other belonged to a suspect but the quantification of the sample origin did not indicate any linear criminal accusation, it would simply indicate contact or transfer of DNA by some means.
Someone better be filing a John Doe indictment in Fairfax, that case needs preserving.
B
Sorry, I was so wrapped up in thinking, I spelled skeleton wrong. OY!
i feel ya Blink. I feel you loud and clear.
sigh.
The reason I thought maybe the DNA could have been planted on the shirt is the perp could have seen a person spit on the sidewalk and placed some spit on the shirt, not knowing he was involved in a previous crime. This theory only works if the DNA was found on the shirt. It was probably found on her body though.
@Blink. A golf cart? Is there a golf course near there, and if so do we have a picture of it?
Oh B, you drive me crazy, now I’ve got to ponder what all you said in that post.
Well I hope you meant that affectionately dearest Q, I am really trying to say what I can say.
B
Do I think VSP and Albemarle PD has done enough walk and talks in North Garden? Hell to the No.
B
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This makes me upset. LE should be out and about conducting an investigation. Asking questions and re interviewing all of the witnesses, over and over. What are they doing to solve this case?
I can’t stand it to think they are not hot on this case, as many of you are and continue to be. Why is that?
My guess is the DNA probably came from material under her finger nails.
Unless he has an OJ level defense, they will convict him easily when they catch him. When she was seen and by whom while making her way to the bridge isn’t going to be important at all. They will have him dead to rights for the prior attack, which will more than likely come into evidence because of its similarities and the dna evidence alone will put him on death row or in prison for life. Plus, they are unfortunately probably not going to catch him until he gets caught doing some other terrible crime. The only thing that could get him off is not being able to get the dna evidence admitted.
As you know, I believe right now the Fairfax attack is the more prosecutable crime of the two.
I wish I shared your optimism on the rest.
If he has not already, he will re-offend.
B
Interesting the DNA info I always thought of it as some kind of permanent storage thing that would not decay. The condition of the tshirt suggests it has been brought from a sheltered site to the location and was found very soon after. Yet the DNA itself would seem to suggest it to be contaminated on the day it was found?
So I guess the John Doe comment is regarding Sketch?
Sketch being the uncontrollable one and his partner in crime a very organized being?
What would be the ‘ message’ regarding AF?
we all know the weather conditions were far from excellent so the tshirt should reflect that IF it was outside at all for any amount of time
also this leads me to another question
if the tshirt was outside from day 1 (Metallica concert) would it be possible to be in the condition it was found in? (when lying under a bush for example).
Someone better be filing a John Doe indictment in Fairfax, that case needs preserving.
B
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Fortunately there is no limitations period in Virginia for rape (or any other felony for that matter).
Agreed as to felony ( with some rare exceptions, none that would apply here), but I am referring to evidence and witness testimony, any investigative subpoenas that may have been issued and depositions taken as a result. Cases get old, witnesses lose memory and/or willingness to be involved, die, evidence degrades, gets lost. That indictment is preserved forever via the profile until such time there is a name to go with it. There would be a standing warrant.
B
John, Yes, there are Golf Courses near there. Look up Birdwood. But UVA employees would use “golf carts” as well. Especially around the sports facilities.
Of course I meant the driving me crazy comment in a positive way Blink. Dispite negative opinions from others, I’ve always respected you for what you do in these missing persons cases and in others. All you do, and have done, is what I do and always intend to do, give voices to those who have been harmed. There is nothing whatsoever wrong in doing that, and doing it for NO monitary gain.
To answer your question Alexandra, for myself as I’m certain also for others, Morgan’s case got to us in very heartfelt ways, which probably isn’t possible for LE. Each case they handle is unique in it’s own way, and I’m sure their are some LE that have the ability to take a case to heart, even though it’s a tough thing to do. I would like to see more Ex LE, retired, take it upon themselves to continue on looking into cold cases. Just because they retired, they still have much to contribute because of their experience.
Now, about that damned DNA. Just maybe sketch isn’t the one who planted the t-shirt, and maybe it wasn’t sketch that planted Morgan’s body where she was found. Just maybe we have someone who isn’t African American that sketch asked help from, to plant first Morgan then the t-shirt, and maybe whoever it was, had been watching us talk on FindMorgan, which led to the planting of that t-shirt at 15th & Grady when they found out that searches would be moving south.
Which then makes me wonder who a sex offender would know who would be able to carry out those deeds and not be caught? Another sex offender either close to AF, or had intimate knowledge of such? Perhaps we have been going about all this with only an African American in mind that would have intimate knowledge of AF. I also wonder if LE has thought about this. Since the powers that be see no problem permitting sex offenders from working as contractores, landscapers etc, someone who worked at Blandemar building homes would be a good bet to research.
Of course, but I can tell you we have done a great deal of that already and it would not be something I would be comfortable providing feedback on if I am understanding you correctly.
B
Since the Tshirt was found in good condition it could not have been left outside, even under a bush, for 19 days. It was not there before it was found on November 5, 2009. It was not a good samaritan who found it on the ground or under a bush and placed it neatly on top of the bushes. IMO
Georgie,
I made that point above somewhere, about Fontaine (29 Business) being the closest exit off 29 from AF to Jefferson Park Avenue and the university.
It does seem likely that there was an effort by someone (the perp or his ally) to direct attention TO the university and students with the planted t-shirt, and AWAY from outlying areas. The leggings, IMO, had they been retained and tagged, would have led attention back toward 29 (JPA/Fontaine exit)–”too close for comfort.” In other words, Morgan’s abduction took place near a 29 exit (off 250) and the leggings near the next southward 29 exit (Fontaine/JPA) would start to FOCUS the search for her, right? So were the leggings intentionally removed? Just wondering…
Off topic: Britanee Drexel http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/16/south-carolina-sex-offender-eyed-in-cold-case-disappearances-brittanee-drexel/?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D136412
J,me, OK, thanks Well, I suppose the obvious has been done, like look in the holes numbered 2-4-1. Yes, Q, crazzzy time!!
………. http://www.pritchardsports.com/ ….. from Pritchard Sports and Entertainment Group Events Division. On this page, to the right on the revolving bar, JPJ ARENA is their client … ’06 til present. Superior cleaning, etc. services. on the main site: Toyota Center Pimlico, PGA, Ryders Cup, State fairs, and FESTIVALS. Inside, outside, parking lots, equipment storage. They are specialty trained. “Golf carts” surveillance of the grounds?
I would think they would be friendly and well known to Security, et al, at any event; especially one at a consistent location.
Questionables: Video (inside-and-out) … Purse and contents … [no signs of a struggle] … timeline … last seen by “Golf Cart”.
Who found and took the witness statements that ‘determined’ the time-line??
Blink, thanks again for all the info. you’ve been able to share. I was wondering yours and other opinions on things I’m questioning. I’ll try to keep it short. Do you feel Morgan was tossed outside or left on her own? I also have questions on the bridge sightings. Do you find those credible? I am leaning towards an incident where her purse and cell were found. I can’t imagine her without those things and especially hitchhiking. It’s just a feeling but do you think she really was?
I found a timeline and of course I can’t locate it now. It documented every single witness sighting, coversations and the courtsey you referred to. I think maybe she was taken where the purse and cell were found. Thoughts?
You are a newer poster, so even though I have gone over this several times, and at great length, all on this site, I will respond briefly. Not being curt, just short on time.
1. I am not able to comment.
2. I think the Voth hhiking/Morgan on bridge is credible, but that is the only one. It also does not match the timeline so if it was Morgan on the bridge, imo, she turned around and went back toward JPJ, thus the loo sighting. If those gentlemen have electronic keys and were leaving/coming to something, that would be simple enough to check out.
3. I believe Morgan’s phone’s battery was removed from power when she was accosted from behind and she dropped it. This did not occur where the purse was found.
4. If Morgan was hitchhiking, imo, it was as a gesture from a pre-arranged anticipated ride.
B
Rose7 – I was thinking about the Golf Cart sighting last night, and it hit me that all this time I had been thinking that the last people to see Morgan were the BBPlayers, but actually it would have been the Golf Cart duo. So, somehow VERY shortly after that small seemingly happy, carefree interaction, Morgan turned into a scared deer, dropping her purse and phone and running up onto the bridge where she desperately turns to hitchhiking.
A Golf Cart doesn’t move fast enough to have missed whatever happened between the time they saw Morgan and her turning desperate. So, someone help me out here, what are we missing?
B. says((I continue to believe her placement on AF is a very specific message and more than a few “got the reference”.))
If you are referring to the number of the parcel of property where Morgan was placed, (among other things), then , of course the persons responsible must at least be aquainted with Morgan on a personal level, or posssibly as a stalker. I have wondered if, in adition to the number being 41, there was some other marker to ad the two. I wondered this because some seem so sure there was “intimate knowledge of AF) If the two was not added in some fashion, then it could just be a co-incidence. (NOT) If the perps were not aquainted with Morgan and her family and friends and their ways, then they had to be CIA operatives, private detectives, or the like. The parcel of land was deliberately picked to hurt the landowner. That narrows the possibilities to rich and famous. Even I get confused when I try to say all this. Must have been quite the thought out operation. Crazy – Two for one -
The vendetta is finished? I wonder.
I am simply stating that Morgan’s location was reachable only by someone with intimate knowledge of that property to the point of traversing it at night undetected, or leaving any apparent signs to the landowners or anyone else that might have an interest in a property breach (ie: farmhand, any security).
She was placed in a “hollow” next to a creekbed, really the only area on the property one needs a tractor to see down into.
Keep in mind their were dozens of overnight guests sleeping on that property a week after Morgan’s disappearance, to my knowledge, her remains went undetected. There were no attempts to hide her outside of the particular placement and her remains were in a very compacted area ruling out most animal predation. Why not dump her in the woods?
This guy knows this property, this guy knows LE/forensics, likely is a hunter or has some other reason to spend a great deal of time in the woods.
I do not think their is any conspiracy outside of this person or persons knew this land and that it would be the best chance for her to go undetected until such time enough decomposition would occur.
And I think he knows this land via a familial legacy connection, as I have written on extensively.
B
Good thinking Questioner…I had never thought of the idea that if Sketch is the perp, he doesn’t have to have connection to AF…as long as he has a buddy who does.
Olivia,
Thanks for your comment. There is a “Georgie” on the blog (the smart one) as well as me.
It just seemed strange that if anyone was driving up from Anchorage Farm with the T-shirt to place it near the Corner area at 15th and Grady by the shortest route they would also pass right by the intersection where the leggings were found at Jefferson Park and Observatory. Both areas (where the t-shirt was found and where the leggings were found) are similar in that they both have slightly-shabby off-campus student housing and the odd restaurant and service businesses that cater to the UVa student body. Odd too that both items were found near an intersection of two roads as opposed to the midpoint of a block? Tossed out of a car at a stop-sign?
Another oddity that struck me is that if the examination determined that Morgan was killed by the blows she received then the examination might have determined the approximate height of the assailant and whether he was right or left-handed. Yet nada from the VSP.
OK, you think this person eventually wanted Morgan to be found.
Otherwise, he would have put her where animal preditors would be able to get to her, like in the woods. OR, I am back to some very dubious activity by one very dubious Bass, which I thought about a long time ago, and was hammered for it (not by thee) (the body farm guy) Why would someone want to be able to observe Morgan from a high place, ie tractor, or low flying machine. Was she visible from Br. studio, ie from atop the monster? Are we talking about an even bigger monster than I thought, like one who wants to look later and gloat? What are we talking about? And do you think there is any significance to the number 41?
Mr. Bass is in no way involved whatsoever, and by all accounts as a father of daughters very traumatized by locating Morgan’s remains on his property. I did not find the compassion to extend to his daughter however, but I do not believe she was involved whatsoever either.
Respectfully, much of what you are asking I have addressed already in the thousands of comments on here and in my articles covering Morgan’s case. I am just mentioning that so if anyone else wants to chime in with my former thoughts on a question, they can.
Believe it or not, putting a persons remains in an area where it is likely to be scavenged by larger carnivors potentially, would likely result in the remains being found earlier, and yes, I think this offender or offenders is well aware of that, and may even have a hunting dog or has trained them.
B
Hmmmmmm…..one week after Morgan disappeared, there is a “sleepover”, 7 mile, I believe. I just wonder if JB might have organized a “private” search to cover her own property (not for any bad reason) If so, they should have found her. I guess we do not know if Morgan was placed “ONLY” there, and not put somewhere else first, like in the slave cemetary, or the family crypt. There would be evidence of this perhaps. There is evidence of everything. Could the sleepover have been a “cover” for moving the body undetected
from the cemetery to the hollow? Do we know there were dozens? I could never determine how many actually showed up except the 7 or so on facebook. Was there any evidence of there being a witches coven at the site, ie burning etc.?
Well, J’me, you did request I get off the “leggings”…..
Yes, B. I have read your comments re Lewis etc., but could not come up with anything. You probably need to be a local, and older, and open minded, and know what names you are looking for , like who married whom. To your knowledge of forensics, can they (I am sure they can) get DNA sample from remains in slave cemetery/ or owner plots and match to sketch, thus giving his name? Oh, that they could, then they would just have to follow him and catch him doing something, like jaywalking, and arrest him.
I was not talking about David, but Dr. Wm. Bass, body farm guy.
Also, I have read everything you ever wrote, really I have, plus everything (almost) everyone else ever wrote. I do not remember you ever adressing the number 41, which was the number of the plot of land Morgan was placed on. I do not recall anyone ever answering me on that question.
Please blame J’me for me dredging up old issues, because it is not my fault, because J’me strongly suggested we do it, that is why I need you to blame her.
I do not understand the “hollow” part. as in next to the creek bed. Was she placed on the inside of the creek bank, ie a cave-like structure, as oposed to a grassy hollow next to the bank. I am trying to understand why a wolf or fox or other could not easily climb into the hollow, unless it was slimy/slippery next to the water.
If it was, there would be a lot of tracks.
I have always wondered if the T-Shirt could have been placed by an adolecent.
John, All I can say is “LOL”. I like your honesty. As far as Mr. Bass/Body Farm goes, jeepers we might as well draw a correlation to Mr. Jefferson, his partner in writing their fictional books. I am 100% that there is no connection between Morgan and these men. Not that my opinion is worth much.
I do have a subject to bring up that has puzzled me and maybe your imaginative minds can help. Morgan was supposed to have been wearing the missing Swarovski silver necklace that evening. In the painting that J.L. Vance presented to the Harringtons, she paints the earrings found on Morgan as Gold/heart/Crescent moon/star/somewhat delicate dangles. These earrings would have been the antithesis of what I would imagine Morgan wearing with a bold, chunky, glitzy silver necklace. The karma(?) of the two are nowhere close to being similar or complimentary to each other…even with an eclectic, stylish girl like Morgan, I just can’t see both worn together. I am puzzled.
LOL
Coming clean here. J.Me and I have discussed this at length previously- I do not buy for a second that Morgan was wearing that necklace with those earrings. I have studied hundreds of Morgan images and the girl had a penchant for fine jewelry (extraordinary taste and gifts from Mom and Dad).
I could not find one image with a jewelry clash. No mix of silver/white gold and gold or mismatches of any kind. I did find a few pics that I have never published nor have I seen anywhere else where a friend is borrowing a piece of her jewelry, so who knows- maybe she loaned it out?
B
John,
A “hollow” is land between two small mountains. In old English it is frequently spelled “holler” as in ‘hills and hollers’. Not really accurate in this case, I think it refers to the entire slightly depressed basin of land where the stream draining the pond meets the headwaters of the Hardware River which is only a small stream itself at this point. The confluence of the streams is very close to where Morgan was found.
At least that is my understanding of the definition.
Agreed it is not a perfect description, but the closes I got. One would have to see it coming from the SW corner of Red Hill to see what I am referring to, and even then, you can’t see “into” it until you are standing above it.
B
Can someone explain to me why there is an error in the discription of those earrings because I have two examples of such that say she was wearing SILVER earrings. BTW the link isn’t working anymore:
“Distinguishing Marks: Birthmark on upper right arm
Clothing Description: Black t−shirt with “Pantera” written in rust color lettering, black leggings, black mini skirt, black knee high boots (rounded toe with a moderate heel)
Jewelry: Flat link silver necklace with rhinestones, silver dangle earrings, assorted bracelets and rings, rubber bands on fingers in assorted colors
Morgan may have been trying to travel from Charlottesville to to Harrisonburg or Charlottesville to Roanoke, Virginia.”
Source: http://www.lrcf.net/photos/MorganHarrington.pdf
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Identifying Characteristics:
Ears double pierced, light brown oval shaped birthmark on posterior of right upper arm, wears contacts
Clothing:
Black T-shirt with band name Pantera in tan lettering across front of shirt, mini skirt, black tights and black knee-high boots
Jewelry:
Silver dangling earrings, silver chain linked necklace, multiple rings and elastic band bracelet worn on left wrist
Circumstances of Disappearance:
Morgan accompanied friends to a Metallica concert at the John Paul Jones Arena at the UVA in Charlottesville, VA. She became separated from friends and called them from her cell phone at approximately 8:40PM indicating she finding alternative transportation home. Her purse and cell phone were located in a nearby parking area the following morning.
Investigative Agency:
Virginia State Police
Phone:
(434) 352-3435
Investigative Case #:
09-83020523
Also noting a discrepancy in the color of the lettering on the t-shirt?
Q- I wish I knew. I know the earring description originally came from a friend that was not present, I recall it said that they were between costume and nicer ( or words to that effect). Inaccurrate.
As usual, I brought on the clarification of the earrings conversation within VSP, there was a refusal to discuss them publicly, you see the depiction in Jane’s work.
Those are definitely the earrings Morgan was wearing. I have no clue why the Harrington’s were not asked basic investigative 101 questions one would ask in a mp case. Probably rhetorical.
B
The golf cart two are probably the last to see Morgan on the UVA property. Are they involved in the abduction? Very possible.
Questioner has made a statement about the speed of a golf cart being slow. This depends on the type of cart. Those that are battery powered can obtain a max speed of around fifteen miles per hour while those that are gasoline driven can reach twenty-five to thirty. A very fast sprinter can run at twenty to twenty-two miles per hour for a distance of one hundred yards. Morgan could not have outrun a golf cart in her boots.
If we are to make something of the plot numuber in regards to the placement of the body, this IMO, must make sense to someone local to Charlottesville or North Garden and would be meaningless to an individual from out of town.
I do not think Morgan was placed on AF until just before the search that discovered the leggings that seemed to have disappeared.
Whoever placed the body knew that it could not be seen from most places of observation. This means real knowledge of the AF property and the surrounding property. A hollow such as this is exactly where deer would choose to bed down in the tall grass. Local hunters would know of this spot.
I am thinking that “sketch” gets in the picture after the abduction takes place and he is the one that is responsible for her death. This means that “sketch” is known to local people. The bones broken premortum indicate that Morgan was defending herself or she was beaten by someone with a baton or stick. The condition of the T-shirt indicates that Morgan did wear the shirt and it was removed without damage with the intent to keep a trophy.
Until proven otherwise, I believe that Morgan was abducted where her purse was found on UVA property and taken to another place. She was kept there either alive or dead for a period of two weeks and then moved to AF.
I am interested in why you think she was kept alive somewhere- is that because you feel her remains would have been detected on AF the weekend of the 7 mile sleepover?
B
Ok, so where does the ‘crystal’ necklace come in ???
Not sure.
B